Archive for March, 2007



Tanya Reinhart

Tanya Reinhart has apparently died of a stroke in New York. Reinhart was one of the few critics of Israel that I felt could consistently be relied upon for sharp, correct, and just analysis of Israeli policy and advocacy for Palestinian rights. So many other intellectual big hitters have […]

Fishbone, The Struggle for Water

My good friend Aaron Fishbone has just published a book, The Struggle for Water: Increasing Demands on a Vital Resource. The synopsis from Powell’s reads:
This title brings together a wide variety of materials on the issues and controversies surrounding the complex subject of water ownership and freshwater privatization. It presents a general overview […]

Another road

While I was reading Ali Abunimah’s excellent book One Country, I came across a passage about Danae Elon’s film Another Road Home, which I put at the top of my Netflix queue and recently watched. Elon is the daughter of the noted Israeli author and former Ha’aretz correspondent Amos Elon, an outspoken critic of […]